I may have to write hundred word stories on restaurant menus, sonnets on ticket stubs, grand ideas for Novel C on the back of my hand...

Week 51 was quite a come down from the record-breaking of its predecessor. Too many errands to perform. Too many people to catch up with one last time. Too many things I never got around to fighting for my attention.

Seems a shame to end 2008 on a downer, writing-wise.

But hey, I made it to 800,000 words. That's 80% of a million words. Or 2,188 words per day. If you take out the 46 days (past and future) in 2008 when I was unable to write due to being outside the UK, the average becomes 2,502 words per day.

But I'll hold back on further number crunching until my graph extravaganza.

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"For anyone interested in New Zealand writing, this is a book worth picking up." David Larsen, NZ Herald 29/09/08 (full review here)

"If you only have time for one new local writer in your life then make it Sue Orr." Nicky Pellegrino, NZ Herald 15/09/08 (full review here).

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